Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates and Current Practices

Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Program

The Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2026 program delivers a comprehensive, high-yield review of contemporary emergency medicine, focusing on practical clinical strategies, emerging evidence, and current approaches to the evaluation and management of critically ill and complex patients.

Designed for healthcare professionals working across emergency, acute, critical, and primary care settings, this program brings together current developments in emergency medicine through interactive presentations, case-based learning, clinical problem-solving, and recorded educational sessions for flexible access.

Program Overview

This postgraduate emergency medicine program addresses a broad range of high-priority clinical and operational topics, including:

• Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)
• Advanced airway management
• Cardiac arrest and resuscitation
• Acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke
• Sepsis and septic shock
• Pulmonary embolism and DVT
• Critical care and trauma
• Pediatric and geriatric emergencies
• Psychiatric emergencies
• Emergency medicine informatics
• Artificial intelligence and digital health
• Telemedicine and humanitarian response
• Health equity and social determinants of health
• Emergency department operations and patient experience
• Environmental and wilderness medicine

The content is structured to help learners translate current evidence and clinical developments into practical strategies that can be incorporated into everyday emergency care.

Key Topics Covered

Critical Care and Resuscitation

• Cardiac arrest management and resuscitation updates
• Ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest
• Vasopressors and shock management
• Push-dose pressors
• Personalized management of septic shock
• Sepsis updates
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
• Phenobarbital strategies for severe alcohol withdrawal
• Management of critically ill trauma patients

Emergency Cardiovascular Medicine

• EKG interpretation and emergency ECG evaluation
• Tachydysrhythmias
• Cardiac arrest therapeutics
• Shock and vasopressor strategies
• Contemporary approaches to cardiovascular emergencies

Stroke and Neurologic Emergencies

• Acute ischemic stroke updates
• Acute stroke management
• Hemorrhagic stroke emergency care
• Evidence-based stroke treatment strategies
• Mild head trauma
• Acute neurologic presentations in the emergency department

Point-of-Care Ultrasound

The program provides practical education in emergency POCUS, including:

• Cardiac ultrasound
• Lung ultrasound
• eFAST examination
• Pediatric POCUS
• Ultrasound-guided procedures
• Point-of-care ultrasound applications in critically ill patients

Airway and Trauma Care

• Advanced airway management
• Difficult airway strategies
• Emergency airway management
• Burns and burn management
• Acute compartment syndrome
• Trauma resuscitation
• Evaluation and management of critically ill trauma patients

Pulmonary and Thromboembolic Emergencies

• Pulmonary embolism
• Deep vein thrombosis
• Contemporary PE and DVT management algorithms
• Evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

• Bronchiolitis: current evidence and emerging practices
• Newborn fever
• Pediatric POCUS
• Current pediatric emergency medicine literature
• Practical approaches to common pediatric emergencies

Geriatric Emergency Medicine

• Frailty assessment
• Geriatric falls
• Atypical presentations of disease in older adults
• Emergency care considerations for older patients
• Improving outcomes for vulnerable geriatric populations

Psychiatric and Behavioral Emergencies

• Care of psychiatric patients in the emergency department
• Psychiatric emergencies
• Practical approaches to challenging behavioral presentations
• Emergency department considerations for complex psychiatric patients

Women's and Reproductive Health

• Postpartum hemorrhage
• Emergency evaluation and management of reproductive health conditions
• Time-sensitive approaches to obstetric emergencies

Infectious Disease and Sepsis

• Sepsis management updates
• Septic shock
• Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• Newborn fever
• Evidence-based emergency infectious disease management

Emergency Medicine Operations and Health Equity

The program also examines the broader systems that influence emergency department care, including:

• Emergency department workflow optimization
• Improving the patient experience
• EMTALA and medical screening examinations
• Management of challenging patients
• Health equity in emergency medicine
• Social determinants of health
• Environmental impacts of healthcare
• Strategies for improving equitable access and outcomes

Innovation, Technology, and Digital Health

Explore how emerging technologies are influencing emergency medicine, including:

• Artificial intelligence in emergency medicine
• Clinical informatics
• Predictive model evaluation
• Telemedicine
• Digital health
• Humanitarian disaster response
• Innovation in emergency medicine
• Opportunities and challenges associated with healthcare technology

Environmental and Wilderness Medicine

• Wilderness medicine
• High-altitude illness
• Environmental emergencies
• Practical approaches to emergency care in challenging environments

Interactive Learning Format

The program combines multiple educational formats designed to support practical learning and clinical application.

Didactic Presentations

Focused presentations review current evidence, clinical updates, emerging practices, and important developments across emergency medicine.

Case-Based Learning

Clinical cases allow learners to apply concepts to realistic emergency department scenarios and develop practical approaches to diagnosis and management.

Question-and-Answer Sessions

Interactive Q&A sessions provide opportunities to explore challenging clinical questions and clarify important concepts.

Clinical Problem Solving

Learners work through practical clinical problems and decision-making scenarios relevant to emergency medicine practice.

Recorded Sessions

Program lectures are recorded and made available for asynchronous viewing, allowing participants to review educational content according to their individual schedules.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the program, participants should be able to:

• Identify and evaluate underlying tachydysrhythmias.
• Apply current therapeutic strategies for cardiac arrest management.
• Incorporate contemporary evidence-based approaches to resuscitation.
• Apply updated strategies for the emergency management of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.
• Use evidence-based algorithms for the evaluation and management of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis.
• Apply current approaches to sepsis and septic shock management.
• Incorporate POCUS into the evaluation of appropriate emergency and critical care patients.
• Recognize and manage common pediatric, geriatric, traumatic, psychiatric, and obstetric emergencies.
• Apply current airway management and critical care strategies.
• Understand emerging applications of artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, telemedicine, and digital health in emergency medicine.
• Recognize the impact of health equity and social determinants of health on emergency care.
• Identify practical strategies for improving emergency department workflow and patient experience.

Who Should Attend?

This program is designed for healthcare professionals involved in emergency and acute patient care, including:

• Emergency physicians
• Physicians in specialty and primary care
• Hospitalists and internal medicine physicians
• Physician assistants
• Nurse practitioners
• Nurses
• Emergency medical technicians (EMTs)
• Other healthcare professionals seeking current emergency medicine education

Why Choose This Program?

The Harvard Emergency Medicine Updates & Current Practices 2026 program provides a broad and practical review of modern emergency medicine, combining clinical updates with real-world applications.

Participants can strengthen their knowledge and clinical decision-making across critical care, trauma, resuscitation, pediatrics, geriatrics, ultrasound, emergency operations, health equity, technology, and other essential areas of contemporary emergency medicine.

Key Benefits

• Comprehensive review of current emergency medicine practices
• High-yield clinical education
• Evidence-based approaches to emergency care
• Practical case-based learning
• POCUS and emergency ultrasound education
• Updates in resuscitation, stroke, sepsis, trauma, and critical care
• Pediatric and geriatric emergency medicine updates
• Exploration of AI, informatics, telemedicine, and digital health
• Flexible access to recorded educational sessions
• Practical strategies that can be applied to clinical practice

Course Categories

Critical Care / Emergency Medicine | Family Medicine | Harvard Medicine | Hospital Medicine | Internal Medicine | Primary Care Medicine

Course Focus

Emergency Medicine CME | Emergency Medicine Updates | Critical Care | Resuscitation | POCUS | Stroke | Sepsis | Trauma | Pediatrics | Geriatrics | Emergency Ultrasound | Airway Management | Pulmonary Embolism | DVT | Health Equity | Artificial Intelligence | Digital Health | Telemedicine | Emergency Department Operations